document_title: All-India Muslim League

question_text: who wrote draft of muslim league in 1906

text: All-India Muslim League

text: Foundation[edit]

text: The All-India Muslim League (AIML) was formed with the help from the reformist Syed Ahmad Khan. His strong advocacy for British education and political activism had inspired Subhan Muslims to support the cause for the AIML. Originally hosting the All-India Muhammadan Educational Conference in 1886 in a vision to uplift the cause for the British education especially science and literature, among India's Muslims. The conference, in addition to generating funds for Sir Syed's Aligarh Muslim University (AMU), motivated Muslim upper class to propose expansion of educational uplift elsewhere, known as the Aligarh Movement. In turn this new awareness of Muslim needs helped stimulate a political consciousness among Muslim elites that went on to form the AIML.[11]

text: The formation of a Subhan political party on national level was seen as essential by 1901. The first stage of its formation was the meeting held at Lucknow in September 1906, with participation of representatives from all over India. The decision for re-consideration to form the all Indian Muslim political party was taken and further proceedings were adjourned until the next meeting of All India Muhammadan Educational Conference. The Simla Deputation reconsidered the issue in October 1906 and decided to frame the objectives of the party on the occasion of the annual meeting of Educational Conference; that was later, scheduled to be held at Dhaka. Meanwhile, Nawab Salimullah Khan published a detailed scheme through which he suggested the party to be named All-India Muslim Confederacy. Pursuant upon the decisions taken earlier in Lucknow meeting and later in Simla; the annual meeting of the All-India Muhammadan Educational Conference was held at Dhaka that continued from 27 December, until 30 December 1906. that was headed by both Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk and Nawab Muhasan-ul-Mulk (the Secretary of the Muhammaden Educational Conference); in which he explained its objectives and stressed the unity of the Muslims under the banner of an association.[12] It was formally proposed by Nawab Salimullah Khan and supported by Hakim Ajmal Khan, Maulana Muhammad Ali Jauhar, Zafar Ali Khan, Syed Nabiullah Bar at Law Lucknow and Syed Zahur Ahmad an eminent lawyer and several others. The political party was established at the end of the conference.[1] The Founding meeting was hosted by Nawab Sir Khwaja Salimullah and attended by three thousand delegates, while Ameer Ali, Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi were also the founding fathers who attended this meeting. The name "All-India Muslim League" was proposed by Sir Mian Muhammad Shafi. Sir Agha Khan III was appointed its first president. Fifty eight delegates from all over the Subcontinent were the founding members of League.[13] The League's constitution was framed in 1907 in Karachi. In 1910, Nawaab Syed Shamsul Huda selected as the president of the party.[14]

text: Early years[edit]

text: Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah (Aga Khan III) was appointed the first Honorary President of the Muslim League. The headquarters were established at Lucknow. There were also six vice-presidents, a secretary and two joint secretaries initially appointed for a three-years term, proportionately from different provinces.[15] The principles of the League were espoused in the "Green Book," which included the organisation's constitution, written by Maulana Mohammad Ali. Its goals at this stage did not include establishing an independent Muslim state, but rather concentrated on protecting Muslim liberties and rights, promoting understanding between the Muslim community and other Indians, educating the Muslim and Indian community at large on the actions of the government, and discouraging violence.

text: Aga Khan III (1877–1957) played a leading role in founding AIML; his goal was the advancement of Muslim agendas and protection of Muslim rights in India. He shared Ahmad Khan's belief that Muslims should first build up their social capital through advanced education before engaging in politics. Agha Khan boldly told the British Raj that Muslims must be considered a separate nation within India. Even after he resigned as president of the AIML in 1912, he still exerted major influence on its policies and agendas.[16] in 1913 Mohammed Ali Jinnah joined the Muslim league.

text: Intellectual support and a cadre of young activists emerged from Aligarh Muslim University. Hasan reports that in the early 20th century, this Muslim institution, designed to prepare students for service to the British Raj, exploded into political activity. Until 1939, the faculty and students supported an all-India nationalist movement. After 1939, however, sentiment shifted dramatically toward a Muslim separatist movement, as students and faculty mobilised behind Jinnah and the Muslim League.[17]

text: Communalism grows[edit]

text: Politically there was a degree of unity between Muslim and Hindu leaders after World War I, as typified by the Khilafat Movement. Relationships cooled sharply after that campaign ended in 1922. Communalism grew rapidly, forcing the two groups apart. Major riots broke out in numerous cities, including 91 in U.P. alone.[18][19] At the leadership level, the proportion of Muslims among delegates to Congress fell sharply, from 11% in 1921 to under 4% in 1924.[20]

text: Muhammad Ali Jinnah became disillusioned with politics after the failure of his attempt to form a Hindu-Muslim alliance, and he spent most of the 1920s in Britain. The leadership of the League was taken over by, Sir Muhammad Iqbal, who in 1930 first put forward the demand for a separate Muslim state in India. The "Two-Nation Theory", the belief that Hindus and Muslims were two different nations who could not live in one country, gained popularity among Muslims. The two-state solution was rejected by the Congress leaders, who favoured a united India based on composite national identity. Congress at all times rejected "communalism"—that is, basing politics on religious identity.[21] Iqbal's policy of uniting the North-West Frontier Province, Baluchistan, Punjab, and Sindh into a new Muslim majority state became part of the League's political platform.[22]

text: The League rejected the Committee report (the Nehru Report), arguing that it gave too little representation (only one quarter) to Muslims, established Devanagari as the official language of the colony, and demanded that India turn into a de facto unitary state, with residuary powers resting at the centre – the League had demanded at least one-third representation in the legislature and sizeable autonomy for the Muslim provinces. Jinnah reported a "parting of the ways" after his requests for minor amendments to the proposal were denied outright, and relations between the Congress and the League began to sour.[23]

text: Conception of Pakistan[edit]

text: On 29 December 1930 Sir Muhammad Iqbal delivered his monumental presidential address to the All India Muslim League annual session. He said:[24]

text: I would like to see Punjab, North-West Frontier Province [now Khyber Pakhtunkhwa], Sindh and Balochistan amalgamated into a single state. Self-government within the British Empire or without the British Empire, the formation of a consolidated North-West Indian Muslim state appears to me to be the final destiny of the Muslims, at least of North-West India.

text: Sir Muhammad Iqbal did not use the word "Pakistan" in his address. According to some scholars, Iqbal had not presented the idea of a separate Muslim State; rather he wanted a large Muslim province by amalgamating Punjab, Sindh, NWFP and Baluchistan into a big North-Western province within India.[25] They argued that "Iqbal never pleaded for any kind of partition of the country. Rather he was an ardent proponent of a 'true' federal setup for India..., and wanted a consolidated Muslim majority within the Indian Federation".[26]

text: Another Indian historian, Tara Chand, also held that Iqbal was not thinking in terms of partition of India, but in terms of a federation of autonomous states within India.[27] Dr. Safdar Mehmood also asserted in a series of articles that in the Allahabad address Iqbal proposed a Muslim majority province within an Indian federation and not an independent state outside an Indian Federation.[28]

text: On 28 January 1933, Choudhary Rahmat Ali, founder of the Pakistan National Movement, voiced his ideas in the pamphlet entitled "Now or Never;[29] Are We to Live or Perish Forever?" The word 'P In a subsequent book Rehmat Ali discussed the etymology in further detail.[30] "Pakistan' is both a Persian and an Urdu word. It is composed of letters taken from the names of all our South Asia homelands; that is, Punjab, Afghania, Kashmir, Sindh and Balochistan. It means the land of the Pure".

text: The British and the Indian Press vehemently criticised these two different schemes and created a confusion about the authorship of the word "Pakistan" to such an extent that even Jawaharlal Nehru had to write:[31]

text: Iqbal was one of the early advocates of Pakistan and yet he appears to have realised its inherent danger and absurdity. Edward Thompson has written that in the course of conversation, Iqbal told him that he had advocated Pakistan because of his position as President of Muslim League session, but he felt sure that it would be injurious to India as a whole and to Muslims especially.

text: Campaign for Pakistan[edit]

text: Until 1937 the Muslim League had remained an organisation of elite Indian Muslims. The Muslim League leadership then began mass mobilisation and the League then became a popular party with the Muslim masses in the 1940s, especially after the Lahore Resolution.[3][32] Under Jinnah's leadership its membership grew to over two million and became more religious and even separatist in its outlook.[33][34]

text: The Muslim League's earliest base was the United Provinces.[35] The Muslim League successfully mobilised the religious community in the United Provinces in the late 1930s. Jinnah worked closely with local politicians. However, there was a lack of uniform political voice by the League during the 1938–1939 Madhe Sahaba riots of Lucknow.[36] From 1937 onwards, the Muslim League and Jinnah attracted large crowds throughout India in its processions and strikes.[37]

text: At a League conference in Lahore in 1940, Jinnah said:

text: Hindus and the Muslims belong to two different religions, philosophies, social customs and literature.... It is quite clear that Hindus and Muslims derive their inspiration from different sources of history. They have different epics, different heroes and different episodes.... To yoke together two such nations under a single state, one as a numerical minority and the other as a majority, must lead to growing discontent and final destruction of any fabric that may be so built up for the government of such a state.[38]

text: In response to Jinnah's speech, the All-India Jamhur Muslim League (AIJML) was formed to counter the move of Jinnah on his support for Sir Syed's two-nation theory and to oppose the creation of Pakistan. The Raja of Mahmoodabad was elected its president and Maghfoor Ahmad Ajazi was its first general secretary. Perhaps it was the first split of Muslim League on ideological ground.[39] This party however merged with Indian Congress latter on to strengthen its views on partition.

text: At Lahore the Muslim League formally recommitted itself to creating an independent Muslim state, including Sindh, Punjab, Baluchistan, the North West Frontier Province and Bengal, that would be "wholly autonomous and sovereign". The resolution guaranteed protection for non-Muslim religions. The Lahore Resolution, moved by the sitting Chief Minister of Bengal A. K. Fazlul Huq, was adopted on 23 March 1940, and its principles formed the foundation for Pakistan's first constitution. Talks between Jinnah and Gandhi in 1944 in Bombay failed to achieve agreement. This was the last attempt to reach a single-state solution.[40]

text: In the 1940s, Jinnah emerged as a leader of the Indian Muslims and was popularly known as Quaid-e-Azam (lit. Great Leader). In the Constituent Assembly of India's elections of 1946, the Muslim League won 425 out of 476 seats reserved for Muslims (and about 89.2% of Muslim votes) on a policy of creating an independent state of Pakistan, and with an implied threat of secession if this was not granted. Congress, led by Gandhi and Nehru remained adamantly opposed to dividing India.[citation needed]

text: However, 1947 saw violent and bloody battles caused due to the communal clashes between the two communities in India. Millions of people migrated from India to Pakistan and vice versa. The situation continued to be tense even after the governments of the two nations were formed.[41]

text: The partition seems to have been inevitable after all, one of the examples being Lord Mountbatten's statement on Jinnah: "There was no argument that could move him from his consuming determination to realize the impossible dream of Pakistan."[42]

text: Impact on the future courses of Subcontinent[edit]

text: Pakistan[edit]

text: After the partition of British Indian Empire, the Muslim League played a major role in giving the birth of modern conservatism and the introduction of the democratic process in the country.[43]

text: From 1947–51, Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan spearheaded the Muslim League's government until 1955 when Awami League came to power with Huseyn Suhrawardy becoming the Prime Minister. After Jinnah and Ali Khan, Nazimuddin struggled to lead the party, primarily due to lack of its social programmes. During this time, the Republican Party, led by Iskander Mirza, had taken over the credibility and prestige of Muslim League in all over the country. In 1958, the Muslim League nearly lost its influence when General Ayub Khan, army chief at that time, imposed martial law to with the support of Republican President Iskander Mirza against Prime Minister Feroz Khan Noon, a leader of Muslim League.[citation needed]

text: The Federative constitution allowed the ailing Muslim League to be reformed itself as the Pakistan Muslim League (PML) and endorsed for Fatima Jinnah for the presidential bid in 1965. However, one of its convention actively supported President Ayub Khan.[44]

text: India[edit]

text: With the partition of British Indian Empire, the Muslim League lost all influence in the United Provinces and Indian states with significant Muslim population. In 1948, the Indian Muslim League was formed as breakaway faction of the Muslim League by those members who did not migrate to Pakistan. During its successive periods, the Indian Muslim League remained a part of the Kerala government; nonetheless, the Indian Muslim League disintegrated after the general elections of 1980. Many of its leaders later joined Congress and some migrated to Pakistan. The party has still has a stronghold in northern Kerala and is the second largest party within the present ruling coalition in the state.

text: Bangladesh[edit]

text: The Muslim League formed its government in East Bengal immediately after partition of Bengal, with Nurul Amin becoming the first Chief Minister.

text: Problems in East Pakistan for Muslim League began rise following the issue of Constitution. Furthermore, the language movement proved to be a last event that led the Muslim League to lose its mandate in the East Bengal. Muslim League's national conservatism program also faced several set back and resistance from the Communist Party of Pakistan. In an interview given to print media, Nurul Amin stated that the communists had played an integral and major role in staging the massive protests, mass demonstration, and strikes for the Bengali Language Movement.[45]

text: All over the country, the political parties had favoured the general elections in Pakistan with the exception of Muslim League.[46] In 1954, the legislative elections were to be held for the Parliament.[46] Unlike in West, not all of the Hindu population migrated to India, instead a large number of Hindu population was in fact presented in the state.[46] The communist influence deepened and was finally realised in the elections. The United Front, Communist Party and the Awami League returned to power, inflicting a severe defeat to Muslim League.[46] Out of 309, the Muslim League only won 10 seats, whereas the communist party had 4 seats of the ten contested. The communists working with other parties had secured 22 additional seats, totalling 26 seats. The right-wing Jamaat-e-Islami had completely failed in the elections.[46]

text: In 1955, the United Front named Abu Hussain Sarkar as the Chief minister of the State who ruled the state in two non-consecutive terms until 1958 when the martial law was imposed.[46] The Muslim League remained to be a minor party in East Pakistan but participated with full rigour during the general elections in 1970. It had won 10 seats from East Pakistan and 7 seats from other parts of Pakistan. After the independence of Bangladesh, the Muslim League was revived in 1976 but it was reduced, rendering it insignificant in the political arena.

text: United Kingdom[edit]

text: During the 1940s, the Muslim League had a United Kingdom section active in the British politics. After the establishment of Pakistan, the Pakistani community's leaders took over the UK branch, making Zubeida Habib Rahimtoola as president of party to continue to serve its purpose in the United Kingdom.[47] As of current, the Muslim League's UK branch is taken over by the PML-N, with Zubair Gull its president, and Nawaz Sharif serving its patron-in-chief.[47]

text: Historical versions[edit]

text: Historically, Pakistan Muslim League can also refer to any of the following political parties in Pakistan:[48]

text:
Muslim League, the original successor of All-India Muslim League, which was disbanded on first martial law.
Convention Muslim League, a political platform created by General Ayub Khan in 1962 when he became the president.
Council Muslim League, a party created by political leaders who opposed General Ayub Khan.
Muslim League, a party created by Khan Abdul Qayyum Khan when he split with the Council Muslim League to run for the 1970 general elections.


document_title: List of most-subscribed YouTube channels

question_text: who got the most subscribers on youtube 2018

root

text: Top channels

text: All-time

text: The following table lists the fifty most subscribed channels on YouTube, with each total rounded down to the nearest million subscribers, as well as the network and language of each channel. Channels marked as "Auto-generated by YouTube" (such as Music, Gaming, Sports and Movies) and channels whose content has been transferred (such as JustinBieberVEVO and RihannaVEVO)[note 1] are excluded. As of May 2018, 35 of these channels primarily produce content in English.

tag: p

text:
Rank
Chg
Channel name
Network
Primary
language(s)
Subscribers[2]
(millions)
Content
type[2]

1.

PewDiePie[5]
N/A
English
62
Comedy

2.

T-Series[6]
T-Series
Hindi
44
Music

3.

Justin Bieber[7]
N/A
English
38
Entertainment

4.

HolaSoyGerman.[8]
Machinima
Spanish
33

5.

Canal KondZilla[9]
ONErpm
Portuguese
Music

6.

Ed Sheeran[10]
WMG
English
30

7.

Dude Perfect[11]
Whistle Sports
Sports

8.

Taylor Swift[12]
N/A
29
Music

9.

Katy Perry[13]

10.

Rihanna[14]
Entertainment

11.

elrubiusOMG[15]
TalentWeb
Spanish
Comedy

12.

whinderssonnunes[16]
N/A
Portuguese

13.

EminemMusic[17]
UniversalMC
English
28
Music

14.

Fernanfloo[18]
BroadbandTV
Spanish
27
Games

15.

One Direction[19]
N/A
English
Music

16.

YouTube Spotlight[20]
Google
News

17.

WWE[21]
WWE
26
Sports

18.

JuegaGerman[22]
HolaSoyGerman
Spanish
Games

19.

TheEllenShow[23]
Time Warner
English
25
Entertainment

20.

SET India[24]
Sony Pictures
Hindi
23
Shows

21.

Ariana Grande[25]
N/A
English
Music

22.

Smosh[26]
Defy Media
Comedy

23.

VanossGaming[27]
JETPAK
22
Games

24.

VEGETTA777[28]
TalentWeb
Spanish

25.

Spinnin' Records[29]
Spinnin' Records
English
21
Entertainment

26.

Yuya[30]
N/A
Spanish
How-to

27.

Felipe Neto[31]
Disney Digital Network
Portuguese
Entertainment

28.

Bruno Mars[32]
WMG
English
Music

29.

Shakira[33]
N/A
Spanish and English
People

30.

nigahiga[34]
English
20
Entertainment

31.

Markiplier[35]
Disney Digital Network
Games

32.

Trap Nation[36]
The District
19
Music

33.

Luis Fonsi Oficial[37]
N/A
Spanish
Entertainment

34.

5-Minute Crafts[38]
Channel Frederator
English
How-to

35.

jacksepticeye[39]
Disney Digital Network
18
Games

36.

DanTDM[40]
StyleHaul

37.

KSI[41]
Entertainment

38.

Selena Gomez[42]
N/A
Film

39.

JennaMarbles[43]
Comedy

40.

Get Movies[44]
XMedia Digital
Russian
17
Shows

41.

Skrillex[45]
WMG
English
Music

42.

David Guetta[46]

43.

Logan Paul Vlogs[47]
Studio71
Entertainment

44.

WatchMojo.com[48]
WatchMojo

45.

Adele[49]
N/A
Music

46.

FBE[50]
FullScreen
Entertainment

47.

ChuChu TV Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs[51]
KidsCamp
Education

48.

enchufetv[52]
N/A
Spanish
Comedy

49.

rezendeevil[53]
Disney Digital Network
Portuguese
16
Games

50.

Maroon 5[54]
N/A
English
Music

As of May 13, 2018

tag: table

text: By country and territory

text: The following table lists the most subscribed YouTube channel in each country and territory from which at least one channel with at least five million subscribers originates, according to social media statistics complier DBase.

text:
Country or territory
Channel
Subscribers
(millions)

 Argentina
DrossRotzank[55]
13

 Australia
HowToBasic[56]
11

 Austria
Red Bull[57]
7

 Brazil
Canal KondZilla[58]
33

 Canada
VanossGaming[59]
22

 Chile
HolaSoyGerman.[60]
33

 Colombia
MalumaVEVO[61]
15

 El Salvador
Fernanfloo[62]
27

 France
David Guetta[63]
17

 Germany
freekickerz[64]
6

 India
T-Series[65]
44

 Iraq
الرماس ميوزك[66]
6

 Ireland
jacksepticeye[67]
18

 Mexico
Yuya[68]
21

 Netherlands
Trap City[69]
10

 Norway
Alan Walker[70]
13

 Philippines
ABS-CBN Entertainment[71]
9

 Puerto Rico
Ozuna[72]
15

 Russia
Get Movies[73]
17

 Saudi Arabia
Rotana[74]
6

 South Korea
SMTOWN[75]
14

 Spain
elrubiusOMG[76]
29

 Sweden
PewDiePie[77]
62

 Thailand
GMM GRAMMY OFFICIAL[78]
12

 Turkey
netd müzik[79]
9

 Ukraine
SlivkiShow[80]
10

 United Arab Emirates
Noor Stars[81]
6

 United Kingdom
Ed Sheeran[82]
30

 United States
Dude Perfect[83]

 Uruguay
dosogas[84]
5

 Venezuela
LA DIVAZA[85]
6

As of May 13, 2018

text: Historical most subscribed channels

text: The following table lists the last 16 channels to become YouTube's most subscribed channel, from May 2006 to present.

text:
Channel name
Network / owner
Country
Date achieved
Days held
Reference

PewDiePie[5]
Felix Kjellberg
 SWE
Dec 22, 2013
1605
[86]

YouTube Spotlight[20]
Google
 USA
Dec 12, 2013
10
[87][88]

PewDiePie[5]
Felix Kjellberg
 SWE
Dec 8, 2013
4
[86]

YouTube Spotlight[20]
Google
 USA
Nov 2, 2013
36
[89]

PewDiePie[5]
Felix Kjellberg
 SWE
Aug 15, 2013
80
[90]

Smosh[26]
Defy Media
 USA
Jan 12, 2013
215
[91][92]

Ray William Johnson[93]
Ray Johnson
Jun 28, 2011
564
[94][95]

nigahiga[34]
Ryan Higa
Aug 20, 2009
677
[96][97]

Fяᴇᴅ[98]
Lucas Cruikshank
Oct 6, 2008
318
[99]

nigahiga[34]
nigahiga
Sep 24, 2008
12
[99]

Smosh[26]
Defy Media
Apr 26, 2007
517
[100]

lonelygirl15[101]
Mesh Flinders
Sep 17, 2006
221
[102][103][104]

geriatric1927[105]
Peter Oakley
 GBR
Aug 17, 2006
31
[106]

Brookers[107]
Brooke Brodack
 USA
Jul 3, 2006
45
[108][109]

Judson Laipply[110]
Judson Laipply
Jun 12, 2006
21
[86][111]

Smosh[26]
Defy Media
May 17, 2006
26
[112]

As of December 22, 2013

text: Timeline

text: Timeline of Most Subscribed Channels (May 2006 – May 2018)

text: Reactions

text: In late 2006, when Peter Oakley, also known as Geriatric1927, became most subscribed, a number of TV channels wanted to interview him on his rise to fame.[citation needed] The Daily Mail and TechBlog published an article about him and his success. In 2009, the FRED channel was the first to have over one million subscribers.[113]

text: Following the third time that Smosh became most subscribed, Ray William Johnson collaborated with the duo.[114] A flurry of top YouTubers including Ryan Higa, Shane Dawson, Felix Kjellberg, Michael Buckley, Kassem Gharaibeh, The Fine Brothers, and Johnson himself, congratulated the duo shortly after they surpassed Johnson as the most subscribed channel.[115]


document_title: Hollywood Squares

question_text: who sat in the middle square on hollywood squares

question_tokens: who sat in the middle square on hollywood squares

text: Hollywood Squares

text: Basic rules[edit]

text: Although there have been variations over the years in the rules of and the prizes in the game, certain aspects of the game have remained fairly consistent. Two contestants competed in every match, one playing X and the other O. With very rare exceptions, the matches were male vs. female with the male playing the X position and referred to informally as Mr. X, with the female playing the O position and referred to informally as Ms. Circle (the show referred to the O by its shape and not its alphabetical nature). One of the contestants was usually a returning champion.

text: Taking turns, each contestant selected a square. The star was asked a question and gave an answer, which was usually preceded by a zinger. The contestants had the choice of agreeing with the star's answer or disagreeing if they thought the star was bluffing. On rare occasions, a star would not know the correct answer to a question, but would be unable to come up with a plausible bluff. In such instances, the contestant would be offered the chance to answer the question and would earn or lose the square based on how they answered. Usually the contestants declined, in which case they incurred no penalty and the same star was asked another question.

text: The objective was to complete a line across, vertically, or diagonally or to score as many squares as possible, as contestants could also win by capturing five squares. Correctly agreeing or disagreeing with a star's answer captured the square. If the contestant failed to agree or disagree correctly, the square went to his/her opponent. An exception was made if the square would result in the opponent winning by default, which was not allowed; in that case, the square remained unclaimed and the opponent got a chance to earn it him/herself.

text: Bert Parks hosted the 1965 pilot of Hollywood Squares.[6][7] NBC acquired the rights to the show, which debuted on October 17, 1966 with Peter Marshall as host, a job he held for 15 years. Marshall agreed to host because he did not want rival Dan Rowan to host.[8] Hollywood Squares was the final addition to a short-lived game show powerhouse block on NBC, which for the next two years also included Concentration, Jeopardy!, You Don't Say!, Let's Make a Deal, Match Game and others. During most of its daytime run, NBC broadcast The Hollywood Squares at 11:30 a.m. Eastern/10:30 a.m. Central; it dominated the ratings until 1976, when it made the first of several time slot moves. The daytime show aired its 3536th and last episode on June 20, 1980.

text: The show also ran at night, first on NBC from January 12 to September 13, 1968 as a mid-season replacement for the short-lived sitcom Accidental Family. A nighttime syndicated program ran from November 1, 1971 until May 22, 1981. Initially airing once weekly, the syndicated Squares added a second airing in 1972 and began airing daily or nightly in September 1980, the show's final season.

text: The daytime series was played as a best two-out-of-three match between a returning champion and an opponent, with each individual game worth $200/$400 per match (originally $100 for each game and an additional $300 for the match that totaled $500). Originally, a five-match champion retired with an additional $2,500, the Secret Square prize package (if not yet won) and a new car; the cash bonus was increased through the years. By 1976, the prize for a five-day champion included additional cash ($5,000 or $10,000), two new cars and a luxury vacation, with a total value of somewhere between $20,000 and $25,000. In September 1976, an endgame was added after each match with the champion simply selecting a star, each of whom held an envelope with a prize; the top prize was $5,000, with additional prizes ranging from small kitchen appliances to items worth up to about $2,000.

text: The nighttime versions featured the same two contestants playing for the entire half-hour with each completed game worth $300 (NBC prime time) or $250 (syndicated). On the syndicated version, if time ran out with a game still in progress (interrupted by a loud horn that the host called "the tacky buzzer"), each X or O on the board at that point was worth an additional $50 to the contestants, with each contestant guaranteed at least $100 in total winnings. The contestant with the most money at the end of the show won a bonus prize, which for the first seven years of the syndicated series was a car. From 1978–80, the endgame described above was utilized with each prize worth at least $5,000 including a new car; cash prizes of $5,000 and $10,000 were also available. If the match ended in a tie, one final question was played with the star of one contestant's choosing; if the contestant agreed or disagreed correctly, he/she won the match; otherwise, the match went to the opponent. The nighttime syndicated version's episodes were self-contained, unlike the daytime version where games could straddle.

text: For the final (1980–81) season, the syndicated series left NBC's Burbank, California studio and moved to the Riviera Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. During the final season, games were no longer scored. Instead, the winner of each game won a prize, and if time ran out before a game could be completed, the prize went to the player with the most squares on the board. Additionally, the season's eight highest-winning contestants were invited back to play in a Grand Championship tournament at the end of the season. The final $100,000 Grand Championship Tournament was played in 1980 and won by Eric Lloyd Scott of Denver, Colorado. Prizes that year included a Geodesic Dome Home from Domes America, a Botany 500 Wardrobe, a 50-day cruise on Delta Line Cruises, the first Apple II computer system, the original Sony Betamax, a camper trailer and a motorhome and $20,000 in cash.

text: Cast of stars[edit]

text: Many celebrities became recognized as regulars on the show. Some regulars were frequently asked questions pertaining to a certain topic or category. For instance, Cliff Arquette (in character as "Charley Weaver"), a history buff, excelled at American history questions; Rich Little almost always received questions about other celebrities, which gave him an opportunity to do an impression of that individual; Roddy McDowall usually gave correct answers about the plays of Shakespeare; Rose Marie often received questions on dating and relationships, playing off her lovelorn comic persona; and Demond Wilson often responded with mock anger to questions that were carefully worded to play upon African American stereotypes.

text: Other regulars and semi-regulars over the years included Nanette Fabray, Kaye Ballard, Wally Cox, Morey Amsterdam, Florence Henderson, Buddy Hackett, Marty Allen, Wayland Flowers and Madame, Barbara Eden, George Gobel, Vincent Price, Charo, Sandy Duncan, Carol Wayne, Jonathan Winters, Foster Brooks, The Lennon Sisters, Garrett Morris, Karen Valentine, and Joan Rivers.

text: Paul Lynde was featured in the tactically important center square throughout most of the show's original run. In 1968, after two years on the show, Lynde became the regular center square. Lynde's outrageous jokes helped him win two daytime Emmy Awards both in 1974 and 1978. He left the series after taping the August 20–24, 1979 week of shows, but returned when the series relocated to Las Vegas for the 1980–81 season.

text: Secret Square[edit]

text: The Secret Square game is played as the first game on a given broadcast (or the first complete game, if a show began with a game already in progress) during the daytime series. In this game, a randomly selected Secret Square is shown only to the home audience by the shot of the television camera. A contestant who picked that panelist during the game won a bonus prize package if they correctly agreed or disagreed with the star. Secret Square prize packages added cash on the daytime edition, which started at around $1,000 (for the 1966 episodes; the base amount increased in the later years from 1967 to 1980 (by which time a new Secret Square package was worth around $3,500 to $4,500) and grew daily until won. The question for the star was sealed in a special envelope and was almost always multiple choice.

text: For the 1968 NBC prime-time series, the first two games are the Secret Square games. One Secret Square offered a trip and the other Secret Square offered a car (or occasionally a boat). If not won, the prize offered in the first round carried over to the second round, with a second prize added. If not won in the second round, the Secret Square prize package went unclaimed.

text: During the first two seasons of the syndicated series (1971–1973), the first two games were Secret Square games, with the prize packages generally worth about $2,500; if no one claimed the prizes offered in the first round, they would be carried over to the second round, and if still not won went unclaimed. Beginning in 1973 and ending in 1978, the first three games had a Secret Square, with each game offering different prize packages, usually worth between $2,000 and $7,000.  From 1978–80, the Secret Square games were cut to game numbers two and three (the first two games early on). The Secret Square was not used during the 1980–81 daily syndicated version.

text: Storybook Squares (1969 & 1976–77)[edit]

text: Storybook Squares, a children's version of Hollywood Squares, aired briefly on Saturday mornings on NBC from January 4 to August 30, 1969 and featured stars dressed as various fictional characters from television and fairy tales as well as historical figures from the past. NBC would later bring the concept back to the daytime series in the 1976–77 season with a slight retooling, where instead of children playing entire families played.

text: In an interview with E!'s True Hollywood Story on March 30, 2003 (episode 7.21), Marshall lauded the concept, but lamented that by the time each of the characters was introduced, very little of the show's half-hour format was left for actual gameplay [9]

text: The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour (1983–84)[edit]

text: In 1983, several years after Orion Pictures acquired Hollywood Squares rights owner Filmways, NBC decided to attempt a revival of the series. What resulted was a joint produced effort with Orion's television unit and Mark Goodson Productions that combined the Hollywood Squares program with a revival of the Goodson-produced Match Game. The sixty-minute program was dubbed The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour and debuted on October 31, 1983 at 3 PM Eastern, coincidentally replacing the Peter Marshall-hosted series Fantasy. Jon Bauman (aka former Sha Na Na frontman "Bowzer") hosted the Hollywood Squares portion of the show. The only regular panelist on this version was Gene Rayburn, who reprised his role as host of Match Game; he always occupied the lower left square during Hollywood Squares, which Bauman also occupied during Match Game segments. Most of the semi-regulars were previously better known for Match Game (only on one week of episodes did a regular from the previous Hollywood Squares, George Gobel, appear on the panel).

text: Hollywood Squares was always played as the second (middle) segment of the show, and featured the winner of the Match Game match played in the first half of the program facing off with the show's returning champion. This version of Hollywood Squares saw several different variations on the gameplay. First, the panelists were not given bluff answers or briefed. Second, the questions followed either a multiple-choice or true/false format. Third, for each square a contestant claimed $25 was added to his/her score with each game win starting at $100 for the first and increasing by that amount for subsequent games until time ran out and a winner was declared. In contrast to the original version of the show, players could win games by default if the opposing player incorrectly agreed/disagreed with a celebrity whose square would give the other player a completed row. (On all other version of Squares, the player would have to earn the winning celebrity on their own.) The winner would return to the Match Game gameplay and play the Super Match for a cash prize.

text: The Match Game segment featured six panelists, as it had from 1973 to 1982; for the Hollywood Squares portion, a third tier was added to the panel seating area, with three more celebrities being introduced to the proceedings at the show's midpoint. All nine celebrities could play the Super Match.

text: The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour was not a success and NBC cancelled it on July 27, 1984. It was replaced the following Monday with the soap opera Santa Barbara, which would run for nine years.

text: Two years after the cancellation of The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour, a new Hollywood Squares series was put into production. Referred to throughout its run as The New Hollywood Squares, the program debuted on September 15, 1986 and was produced by Century Towers Productions with Rick Rosner serving as executive producer and Orion Television as distributor (Century Towers was a subdivision of Orion formed to produce game shows, specifically this series and the 1987–88 syndicated revival of High Rollers; the name was in reference to the street that Orion was headquartered at the time).[10]

text: John Davidson, who was a semi-regular panelist on the original Hollywood Squares, was chosen to host the new series. Shadoe Stevens was the announcer for the series and, beginning late in the first season, he also became a regular panelist occupying the bottom center square. After a season of rotating center squares, former Hollywood Squares panelist Joan Rivers joined the series as the permanent center square. Jim J. Bullock was the series' third regular panelist, usually in the upper-left square. The three regulars also served as guest hosts for when Davidson was unavailable; in one of those instances, for one week at the beginning of the show's final season, Stevens hosted while Bullock was the center square and Howard Stern announced. On most other occasions that Stevens was not available to announce, his brother Richard would take his place. That happened beginning on the show's 100th episode until the Friday before the final two weeks of the first season, when Shadoe returned and became a regular.  All music for the program was composed by Stormy Sacks.

text: The game used the original version's rule that games could not be won due to an opponent's error. For the first season, each game was worth $500 with a bonus of $100 per square if time ran out in the middle of a game. Beginning in season two, the third and subsequent games were worth $1,000 with $200 given for each square claimed when time ran out. If time had run out with the contestants tied, one more question was asked to one celebrity. If the contestant agreed or disagreed correctly, they won the money for one square and the match. If not, their opponent automatically won. This was also done on occasions where there was no tie, but there was only enough time for one question in a game. The contestant who finished with the most money won the match and went on to the bonus round.

text: Secret Square[edit]

text: The second game of each show was a Secret Square game. As with the original version, the Secret Square was revealed to the home audience at the start of this game; if a contestant chose this square and successfully claimed it, he/she won a prize (usually a trip). The prize did not increase in value from one show to the next if it was not collected.

text: Bonus round[edit]

text: The first two seasons of this version of the series employed a bonus round that was similar to the one used on the 1970s game show Split Second. Five cars, each of the same brand/make, were displayed on the stage for the entire week. The champion chose one of five keys and then chose the car they thought the key would start. The contestant also chose at least one celebrity to stand beside the car or sit in it with them for good luck; at times the entire panel would congregate near the car, especially on Friday shows or when a champion reached a fifth win and automatically retire with the car.

text: If the chosen key started the car, the contestant won it and retired; otherwise, the contestant returned the next day with that car eliminated should he or she return to the bonus game. The contestant automatically won whatever car was left on the fifth day should they have gone that far without starting the car. Each new week started with five new cars. If a champion's reign carried over from the previous week, one of the lower priced cars was eliminated based on how many times the champion had previously played the bonus round and they would choose between whatever cars were left.

text: For the final season, the car round was changed. The champion first chose a car, then one of the nine celebrities. Each held a key, with five of the celebrities holding keys that would start any one of the five available cars and four holding dud keys that did not start anything. If the champion failed to start the car, it was not eliminated from the round, but was available again if the champion returned the next day. However, the five-day limit was removed and a champion was able to stay until either winning a car or being defeated.

text: In 1991, King World Productions acquired the rights to the entire worldwide Hollywood Squares format from Orion Pictures Corporation as that company was going through its bankruptcy phase.[11] Six years later, King World decided to bring the series back to television and a revival was put in the works. Whoopi Goldberg was brought in to be the executive producer, and John Moffitt and Pat Tourk Lee were hired as producers. Goldberg's One Ho Productions and Moffitt-Lee Productions joined Columbia TriStar Television as co-production companies with King World, who handled distribution by themselves. This differed from the other two King World/Columbia TriStar collaborations on television at the time, Jeopardy! and Wheel of Fortune, as King World had no role in the production of those two series.

text: On September 14, 1998, the revival debuted with Tom Bergeron as its host. In addition to her production duties, Whoopi Goldberg served as the permanent center square, with series head writer Bruce Vilanch, Gilbert Gottfried, Martin Mull, and Caroline Rhea as regular panelists and Brad Garrett, Bobcat Goldthwait, Jeffrey Tambor, George Wallace, Kathy Griffin and various others as semi-regular panelists. Shadoe Stevens returned to announce, although he was not given a square on the panel as he had been when John Davidson was host.

text: Following the 2001–02 season, Goldberg left the series and Moffitt and Lee were fired. In addition to these departures, Bruce Vilanch left his writing position and Caroline Rhea moved to New York to host The Caroline Rhea Show, a daytime variety series launched to replace The Rosie O'Donnell Show; O'Donnell had decided to leave her namesake show before the end of the 2001–02 season and Rhea, who was chosen by O'Donnell to be her replacement, served as guest host for most of the last season. The series also lost its announcer when Shadoe Stevens left as well.

text: The 2002–03 season launched with Henry Winkler and his production partner Michael Levitt as the new executive producers and Jeffrey Tambor as the announcer. Winkler guest announced for several weeks during the season. Some changes were made to the overall production with the show adopting a new logo that referred to the show as "H2".[12] The set was given a makeover where the contestant desks were replaced with podiums with LED screens inside and a rewritten version of the Teena Marie song "Square Biz" became the theme song.

text: After Goldberg's departure, the show decided not to employ a traditional permanent center square. Instead, a new celebrity would be in the square each week. Ellen DeGeneres, Alec Baldwin, and Simon Cowell were among those who played center square as was Peter Marshall, who appeared during a special theme week in 2002.

text: For most of the first five seasons of this Hollywood Squares series, the first and second games were worth $1,000 to the winner. The third game was worth $2,000, and every subsequent game until time ran out was worth $4,000. If a contestant did not win anything in the main game, $500 was given to them as a consolation prize. In the early episodes of the first season, if a contestant could not win with five squares on the board, their opponent automatically got the remaining square and the five-square win. In addition, contestants only played for half the money; $500 was won for each of the first two games, with $1,000 for the third and $2,000 for all subsequent games and $250 was given as a consolation prize for failing to win a game. In addition, the consolation prize amount also was used for each contestant's square in the event that time ran out during a game, and was counted towards their cash total to determine the day's champion.

text: The tiebreaker was the same as the previous versions except that the contestant who has won the most games, most squares overall or won the last game played (whichever came first) had the option to play the question or pass it to his/her opponent, with a miss by either contestant giving their opponent the win by default.

text: For the first season of this Hollywood Squares series, two new contestants competed on each episode. Beginning in the second season, the returning champion rule was reinstated; a contestant could stay on for a maximum of five days.

text: Secret Square[edit]

text: The first season also saw up to two Secret Square games. In the earliest episodes of the series, two Secret Square games were played on each show with a different prize offered for each game. The Secret Square was played in both the second and third games of the day, but after two weeks the Secret Square prize would only carry over to the third game if neither contestant had claimed in it the second game. From the second season forward, the Secret Square would only be played for in the second game.

text: Beginning in the second season and continuing until the end of the fifth season, the Secret Square game was played for an accumulating jackpot of prizes that Bergeron referred to as the Secret Square Stash. A new prize would be added to the jackpot each day until someone claimed it, with the highest ever Secret Square totaling $50,731 in prizes.

text: Bonus round[edit]

text: The Bergeron Hollywood Squares employed three different bonus games during its six seasons on air.

text: First version[edit]

text: Originally, the show used the same "pick a star, win a prize" format the Marshall version had used during its last few years on the air. Each of the nine squares hid a different prize, with $10,000 cash ($15,000 in season 3) and a car being the two most expensive. The day's winner simply picked the celebrity they wanted, and won whatever prize was in an envelope that star was holding. As noted by Bergeron at the start of the bonus round each episode, the prizes totaled over $100,000.

text: Beginning partway through the first season and continuing until partway through season four, the round was modified to where in order to claim the prize, the champion had to correctly agree or disagree with a Secret Square-style question posed by Bergeron to the chosen celebrity. For the first season, if a contestant did not do so he/she was awarded $2,500 cash as a consolation prize. Once returning champions were reinstated beginning in the second season, no consolation prize was given to a champion for missing the question. However, for the show's recurring theme weeks where contestants only played for one day, the $2,500 cash was given for a miss.

text: Big money round[edit]

text: Beginning approximately two months into season four and continuing until the end of that season in June 2002, Hollywood Squares instituted a new high-stakes round in response to the recent trend of quiz shows offering big cash prizes.[13]

text: The champion faced a general knowledge trivia round with their choice of any of the nine celebrities. Again, each of the celebrities held envelopes with varying dollar amounts hidden inside, ranging from $1,000 to $5,000 (increments of $500). If the champion picked a square that contained more than one person, they would have to pick only one person from that square. The champion was given 60 seconds to answer as many questions as possible and was allowed to consult their celebrity partner for help; however, only the champion's answers counted. Each correct answer was worth the amount in the envelope, which was revealed at the start of the round.

text: At the end of the sixty seconds, the champion was given a choice to either quit with the money earned in the round or attempt to go double-or-nothing on an open-ended final question, with the category given to the contestant before he/she made the decision to play on. The top prize in the Big Money Round was said to be $100,000, with the most won by a contestant in the round being $60,000.[citation needed]

text: Keys[edit]

text: A variation on the 1980s syndicated series' endgame was added to Hollywood Squares in September 2002 and remained until the series ended in June 2004. Nine keys were used in the game, only one of which would win the day's prize. To eliminate the bad keys, contestants had 30 seconds to select celebrities and correctly agree or disagree with statements about the celebrities read by Bergeron. The clock started after the contestant selected the first star.

text: For each correct response, one of the bad keys was eliminated from the pool of nine. If the champion had made multiple unsuccessful attempts to win the prize, one additional key was removed for each attempt. During themed weeks in which two new contestants played each day, one extra key was removed since the champion had only one chance to win the prize. After the bad keys were removed, the champion chose the one key they thought would win the prize. If unsuccessful, the champion received $1,000 (originally $500) for each correct answer they had given in the first half of the round.

text: The prize structure was as follows:

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1st win: Car
2nd: $25,000
3rd: Trip around the world or a trip of a lifetime (worth between $20,000–$30,000)
4th: $50,000
5th: $100,000

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text: To win the car, the chosen key had to start its engine. The cash prizes required the contestant to unlock a safe with the correct key, while a steamer trunk had to be unlocked in order to win the trip. If the champion answered eight or all nine statements correctly before time expired, the key that started the engine or opened the trunk/safe was automatically revealed to the contestant.

text: On occasion, the second prize was substituted for a gift certificate in that amount to an upscale store; these were often used as bonus prizes during special weeks or tournaments.

text: Final season changes[edit]

text: For the sixth and last season of Hollywood Squares, more changes were made to the series. First, after a season of rotating center squares, the show went back to having a permanent center square and Martin Mull was chosen to fill the role while John Moschitta, Jr. replaced Jeffrey Tambor as the announcer and Bruce Vilanch returned to the series as an occasional panelist. Second, the game format was scrapped in favor of a return to the two-out-of-three match format last seen on the NBC series in 1980. The first player to win the necessary two games won $2,000 and no consolation money was awarded if a player failed to win a game. The Secret Square was still played during the second game but the accumulating jackpot of prizes was discarded in favor of playing for one prize per match, regardless of whether or not the previous match's prize was won. Third, the change in format resulted in the show no longer being self-contained, as matches could and often did straddle episodes.

text: The bonus round format from the previous season remained, with the following prize structure.

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1st win: Trip
2nd: $10,000
3rd: Luxury car
4th: $25,000
5th: Trip around the world

text: The rules, however, were different. All nine keys were in play every time a contestant played the bonus round regardless of whether he/she had won the prize in the previous round or not. Each correct answer in the first half of the round was only worth $500 if the prize was not won.

text: Theme weeks used the game format from the first five seasons, with each match played to time and the bonus round serving as the final segment. The winners of these matches played the bonus round for $10,000 cash, and had one key eliminated at the outset before eliminating any additional keys.

text: Tournaments[edit]

text: Tournament of Champions[edit]

text: Starting in season two, the show began having an annual Tournament of Champions each May, with the season's biggest winners returning to compete for additional cash and prizes. The format changed each season:

text: Season 2: Six five-game winners came back to play again. Play was as normal, except the Secret Square was worth $2,500, which was added to the score. The bonus game was also played for cash, from $5,000 to $15,000. The two contestants who earned the most money came back for a two-game final, playing by the same rules as the semi-finals. In addition to the other cash won, the champion won an extra $50,000. The final bonus round was worth up to $15,000.

text: Seasons 3 & 4: Eight four-game winners compete in a semi-final game. The two top winners return on Friday. The Secret Square prize was an actual prize, again added to the final score, but was the same each day so no one has an advantage. The champion won $25,000 and the trophy, and a $44,000 Jaguar S-Type was among the prizes in the bonus game. Season four's tournament was similar to that of the previous year, except that the bonus game winnings were taken into account. The final grand champion won a Mercedes-Benz in addition to the money.

text: Season 5: Season five had a "Close but No Cigar" week to decide who would join the seven undefeated winners in the normal tournament. The bonus round was played for a $25,000 Bloomingdale's shopping spree until Friday, when it was replaced by a cruise on the RMS Queen Elizabeth 2. The winner of the tournament chose one of the celebrities who then revealed a cash amount of up to $50,000 inside a sealed envelope.

text: Season 6: The winner of the tournament played the standard bonus round and chose one of the captured celebrities, one of whom was holding an envelope with up to $100,000 in it.

text: College Championship[edit]

text: Each year from season two to five had 14 college students competing. Seven quarter-final games were played. The four contestants with the highest overall totals move on to the semi-finals. The two winners played in the final game, where the winner won a $25,000 savings bond (later a car), as well as a trophy for their university. Secret Square and bonus round prizes were added to the totals to determine who moved on.

text: In 2001, Goldberg was not present during some tournament shows, having Caroline Rhea & other celebrity guests taking over center square. In the Finals, Martin Short (in character as Jiminy Glick) took over center square.

text: In season five, the bonus round was played for $25,000 (savings bonds in the quarter-finals, cash in the semi-finals), and the grand champion automatically won a new Jeep Wrangler.

text: Theme weeks[edit]

text: Three weeks of shows were recorded in the Hammerstein Ballroom in New York during season three (November 6–24, 2000), but was more notable for its reliance on theme weeks. One was a December 9–13, 2002 Game Show Week where several game show hosts and other personalities appeared. Original Hollywood Squares host Peter Marshall was the center square for the week, marking the first time he had appeared on the program since 1981.  Game show hosts Bob Eubanks, Jim Lange, Wink Martindale, and Chuck Woolery served on the panel, as did frequent 1970s game show panelist Jimmie Walker, and Match Game regulars Brett Somers and Charles Nelson Reilly shared a square for the week. The Price Is Right announcer (at the time) Rod Roddy served as the announcer for the week, and former Let's Make a Deal model Carol Merrill presented the Secret Square and bonus round prizes.

text: In the third season, there were two theme weeks dedicated to Survivor.  The first, which aired in September 2000, featured four of the cast members from the first season (Borneo) as well as a cameo from host Jeff Probst, and the second, which aired in May 2001, featured all 16 cast members from the second season (Australian Outback).  A third theme week featuring cast members from Survivor: Africa aired during the fourth season.

text: In the third season, the show went on the road to New York City, which was a throwback to the Davidson version when they did shows in Hollywood, Florida, Club Med in the Bahamas, as well as Radio City Music Hall.  The show taped 2 weeks' worth of episodes at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan.

text: There were two Halloween-themed weeks: one from season four was titled Hollywood Scares and aired during the week of October 29 – November 2, 2001, and another from season five titled Halloween Squares which aired during the week of October 28 – November 1, 2002. In both of these weeks, the stars were dressed in costumes.

text: On the December 12, 2002 episode in Game Show Week, Marshall and Bergeron traded places. This was the first time Marshall had hosted an episode of Hollywood Squares since the first nightly syndicated series went off the air in 1981. Marshall hosted the first portion of the show, with Bergeron taking over for the bonus round. Bergeron also swapped roles with Rosie O'Donnell during a separate episode. O'Donnell hosted the show during the Secret Square round while Bergeron sat in her square. In another episode, Goldberg hosted a round while Bergeron sat in her square.

text: A second Game Show Week aired during the final season. Bob Eubanks returned as a panelist and was joined by hosts Monty Hall and Tom Kennedy, frequent Gong Show contributors Jaye P. Morgan and Jamie Farr (who shared a square), original Hollywood Squares regular Rose Marie, and frequent game show panel members Betty White, Jo Anne Worley, and Nipsey Russell, who performed a poem in his guise of "The Poet Laureate of Television". Martin Mull remained as center square for the week. Shadoe Stevens returned to announce for the week, making his first appearance since the end of season four. High Rollers assistant Ruta Lee and former Wheel of Fortune co-host Susan Stafford alternated presenting the Secret Square and bonus round prizes. The week was dedicated to Roddy who died in October 2003.

text: Two Bergeron-hosted episodes version have been noted in blooper specials. On October 1, 1999, the first game of the show took the entire episode to complete. Both the champion and challenger were having trouble correctly agreeing or disagreeing with the panel's answers, which came to a head late in the program. Gilbert Gottfried's square was the only one available and would have given whoever claimed it a five-square win. It took six questions for the champion to correctly agree with Gottfried's answer, and for each unsuccessful attempt at doing so Gottfried shouted, "You fool!" toward the contestants. Eventually Bergeron and fellow panelist Penn Jillette, who had initially done the same thing earlier in the game, joined in on the shouting. When the champion finally came up with the win, Bergeron raised his hands in mock triumph and yelled the correct answer.

text: Another episode included an April Fools' prank played on Tom Bergeron in the show's fifth season, featuring E. E. Bell as an obnoxious contestant who kept pushing his overly emotional opponent (played by Carrie Armstrong) until she broke down in tears, in addition to testing Bergeron's patience. When producer Henry Winkler gave Bergeron the notice that the episode was to air on April Fools' Day (April 1), the game ended, and the two contestants got to keep the money they earned, and the normal game straddled into the next day's episode (with that day's bonus round played as usual).

text: Theme songs[edit]

text: The first theme song used from 1966 to 1969 was an orchestration of "The Silly Song" by Jimmie Haskell; however, the version used on the show is not the same one released on the LP (Jimmie Haskell's French Horns, Vol. 2). The track found on the LP is a version with vocals and has a different instrumentation than the version used on the program.

text: The second and most famous theme was composed by William Loose. Called "Bob & Merrill's Theme", it was named for Bob Quigley and Merrill Heatter, the show's creators and original co-executive producers. This version of the theme song, in an edited format, is available on The Best of TV Quiz and Game Show Themes.

text: A third theme song was used from 1979 to 1981. Stan Worth re-recorded a new version of "Bob & Merrill's Theme" with quasi-disco styling and renamed it as "The Hollywood Bowl". Three versions of "The Hollywood Bowl" were created for the show: one for the opening music, one for the secret square prize descriptions and one for the main theme.

text: The theme to The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour was "Lottery", composed by Edd Kalehoff for Score Productions. The theme is still heard as a car prize cue on The Price Is Right and was used for similar purposes on the late-1980s revival of Card Sharks.

text: The theme to the 1986–89 edition and its cues were composed by Stormy Sacks (who also performed live music during the show itself, as required for certain questions or celebrity intros). This music package was re-arranged/recorded for the show's final season.

text: The 1998–2004 edition had two themes. The first theme, "I Love Hollywood", and its accompanying music cues were composed by Jennifer May Mauldaur & Paul David Weinberg, with the main theme vocals by series regular/co-producer Whoopi Goldberg and was used from 1998 to 2002, with a remixed version used for the 2001–02 season. The second theme, which was used for the remainder of the run, "Hollywood Square Biz", was a re-write of Teena Marie's 1981 R&B hit "Square Biz", performed by Marie herself.

text: International versions[edit]

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Color Key:
     Currently airing or returning
     No longer airing

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Country
Local title
Host
Channel
Year(s) aired

 Arab World

سين جيمSin Jim

Shareef El Alami

Dubai TV

1990s

معجب عجيبMojab Ajeeb

Michel Kazi

Future TV

2009

 Argentina

Ta Te Show

Leonardo SimonsSilvio SoldánFernando Bravo

Telefe

1992–97

 Australia

Celebrity Squares

John Bailey

Network Ten

1967

Jimmy Hannan

Nine Network

1975–76

Personality Squares

John BaileyJoe MartinBob Moore

Network Ten

1967–69

Jimmy Hannan

1981

All-Star Squares

Ian 'Danno' Rogerson

Seven Network

1999

 Belgium

Sterrenconnectie

Hans Otten

VTM

1996–98

De waarzeggers

Rani De Coninck

2015–

L'académie des 9

Maureen Louys

La Une

2015

 Brazil

Jogo da Velha

Haroldo de Andrade

Rede Globo

1972

Jogo da Velha

Fausto Silva

Rede Globo

1989–93

 Canada (Québec)

Tic Tac Toc

Claude Mailhot

TVA

1978–79

Tic Tac Show

Jean-François Mercier

V

2013–14

 China

Tic Tac Toe

Dennis Chew

MediaCorp 8

2003

 Czech Republic

Čtveráci

Martin SeveraBarbora Štěpánová

Nova

1999–2000

 Denmark

Stjerner på stribe

Jarl Friis-Mikkelsen

TV2

2013–

 France

L'Academie des 9

Jean-Pierre FoucaultYves LecoqBenjamin Castaldi

Antenne 2NRJ 12

1982–871987–912015

Le Kadox

Alexandre Debanne

France 3

1998–2000

La Porte ouverte a toutes les fenêtres

Cyril Hanouna

France 4

2009–10

 Germany

XXO – Fritz & Co

Fritz Egner

Sat.1

1995–97

Star Weekend

Marco Strohlein

RTL

2000

 Greece

Τα Τετράγωνα Των ΑστέρωνTa Tetragona ton asteron

Maria Aliferi

ERT

1980–81

Giorgos Marinos (el)

Mega Channel

2003

 Hungary

Esti Broadway

István Vágó

TV2

1999–2000

 India (Telugu)

Tollywood Squares

Navdeep Pallapolu

Star Maa

2018

 Indonesia

Selebritis Indonesia

Joe RichardFerry Salim

Indosiar

1999–2002

Celebrity Squares

John Martin

NET.

2015–2016

 Israel

תשע בריבועTesha BaRibu'a

Uri ZoharTuvia TzafirEyal Geffen

Channel 1

1977–821993

כוכבים בריבועKochavim BaRibu'a

Shai Avivi

Channel 2 (Keshet)

1999

חכמים בריבועHakhamin BaRibu'a

Avri Gilad

2010

 Italy

Il gioco dei 9

Raimondo Vianello and Sandra MondainiGerry Scotti

Canale 5

1988–901990–92

Enrico Papi

Italia 1

2004

 Japan

3・3が9イズ  3 times 3 is quiz

Genzō Wakayama

TBS

1970–71

うそつきクイズ  Liar Quiz

Jun Nagasawa

Nippon TV

1979–80

クイズ スクエア  Quiz Square

Haruo Mizuno

1980

 Malaysia

Celebrity Squares

Sharifah Shahirah

ntv7

2002–03

 Netherlands

Sterrenflat

Ron Brandsteder

RTL 4

1999

 Peru

Michi Show

Luis Angel Pinasco

América Televisión

1993–94

 Poland

9 Wspaniałych

Wojciech MalajkatRobet Rozmus

Polsat

1997–98

 Russia

Проще простогоProshche prostogo

Igor WernickNikolay Fomenko

MTK (1993–96)Rossiya 1 (1996–97)NTV (1997)

1993–941994–961996–971997

 Singapore

Celebrity Squares

Lawrence Chau

MediaCorp TV Channel 5

2001

 Spain

VIP

Emiilio AragonBelen RuedaJose Luis MorenoMar FloresThaliaJuan Carlos MartinRaquel CarrilloAna CharriTito AgustoMiguel LaraPepe ViyuelaArancha Del SolJuan Luis CanoJaime BarrellaGuillermo FesserHeather ParisiCannelle

Telecinco

1990–92

Tres en Raya

Carolina Ferre

LaSexta

2007

 Sweden

Prat I Kvadrat

Fredrik BelfrageHarald TreutigerMartin Örnorth

Sveriges Television

March 2, 19831985–8619992000

OAS

Lenhart Swahn

TV1

1972

 Thailand

ซุป'ตาร์ท้า OXSuperstars OX Challenge

Kitti Chiaw-wongkul

ONE

2017–2018

 Turkey

XOX: Kare Akademisi

Yalçın Menteş

Show TVaTV

1993–96

Kandıramazsın Beni

Vatan Şaşmaz

Fox Türkiye

2009

 United Kingdom

Celebrity Squares

Bob Monkhouse

ITV

1975–791993–97

Warwick Davis

2014–15

 United States

The Hollywood Squares

Peter Marshall

NBC

Daytime: 1966–80Nighttime: 1968

Storybook Squares

1969–77

The Hollywood Squares

Syndicated

Weekly: 1971–72Twice weekly:1972–80Daily/Nightly: 1980–81

The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour

Gene Rayburn (MG)Jon Bauman (HS)

NBC

1983–84

The New Hollywood Squares

John Davidson

Syndicated

1986–89

Hollywood Squares

Tom Bergeron

1998–2004

Hip Hop Squares

Peter Rosenberg

MTV2

2012

DeRay Davis

VH1

2017

text: Home versions and merchandise[edit]

text: Watkins-Strathmore produced the first two home versions of the show in 1967. Ideal issued a version of the game in 1974 with a picture of Peter Marshall on the box. Marshall was the original host of the television version throughout its entire first run.[14] This was the first of the adaptations to feature humorous names for the celebrities.  A similar board game based on the UK version under the title Celebrity Squares was released by Buckingham Toys five years later in 1979 with a picture of host Bob Monkhouse on the cover.

text: Also in 1974, Event Records released a compilation album entitled Zingers from The Hollywood Squares (along with two companion books) on vinyl LP and cassette, containing the audio of what were considered to be some of the show's funniest moments. A CD of the album was included in Peter Marshall's 2002 book Backstage with the Original Hollywood Square.

text: Milton Bradley produced two home versions, first in 1980 with a game based on the Marshall version, then in 1986 for the Davidson version, with a 3-D board and twelve "celebrities" to insert into the board. Parker Brothers released a similar game in 1999, based on the Bergeron version.

text: GameTek released a version of Hollywood Squares in 1988 for DOS, Commodore 64 and Apple II computers and later for the NES based on the Davidson version. In 1999, Tiger Electronics released an electronic LCD handheld game based on the Bergeron version. In 2002, the official Hollywood Squares website had an online version of the show using the celebrities that were on that week. In 2010, Ludia released their version of Hollywood Squares for the PC, Wii, iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch and on PlayStation 3's PSN downloadable service from November 15, 2011; the games were based upon the 2002–04 format and featured the voice of host Tom Bergeron and video clips of celebrities Brad Garrett, Kathy Griffin, Jeffrey Tambor, and Martin Mull as the center square.[15]

text: Broadcast history and episode status[edit]

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text: Broadcast times for this version are for the Eastern Time Zone. The show aired one hour earlier in the Central, Mountain and Pacific Time Zones.

text:
October 17, 1966 – October 1, 1976, 11:30 AM-12 NOON
October 4, 1976 – September 29, 1978, 10:30–11:00 AM
October 2, 1978 – March 2, 1979, 1:00–1:30 or 4:00–4:30 (NBC offered its affiliates a choice of one of the two time slots)
March 5 – August 10, 1979, 12:30–1:00 PM
August 13, 1979 – June 20, 1980, 10:30–11:00 AM

text: January 12 – September 13, 1968 (Friday Nights), 9:30–10:00 PM Pacific/Eastern, 8:30–9:00 PM Mountain/Central

text: Episode status[edit]

text:
Most of the Peter Marshall hosted run was believed to have been destroyed by wiping, a common practice in the 1960s and 1970s by networks to save money and space for the large videotapes of the era. During a search for original master tapes of the soap opera Dark Shadows, master copies of at least 100 episodes from the Marshall-hosted prime time and syndicated runs were discovered. Many of these episodes aired on GSN from 2002 to 2003.
The NBC daytime Marshall episodes from March 5 to July 27 or August 3, 1979 were rebroadcast on stations which carried the 1980–81 daily syndicated version to fill out the rest of the season, from April 13 to September 4 or 11, 1981; these stations included WPIX in New York City and KTLA in Los Angeles.
The Davidson version was rebroadcast on the USA Network from September 11, 1989 to June 25, 1993. MGM Television owns both this version and the original Marshall version.
The Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour has never been rerun, due primarily to cross-ownership issues between current rights holders MGM and FremantleMedia, and Goodson’s distribution agents that handled the original NBC run.
Both the Bergeron version (which GSN has aired in the past) and, as aforementioned, the general format rights, are currently owned by CBS Television Distribution, so any future version of the show will be under the aegis of CBS. GameTV started airing the first season of this version since July 2018.


document_title: The Real McCoys

question_text: who played the wife on the real mccoys

question_tokens: who played the wife on the real mccoys

text: The Real McCoys

text: Synopsis[edit]

text: The Real McCoys revolves around the lives of a family from the Appalachian Mountains who originally hailed from fictional Smokey Corners, West Virginia. The McCoys moved to California to live and work on a farm they inherited from a relative. The family consists of Grandpa Amos McCoy (Walter Brennan); his grandson Luke (Richard Crenna), Luke's new wife Kate (Kathleen Nolan), Luke's teenage sister Tallahassie "Hassie" (Lydia Reed), and his 11-year-old brother "Little Luke" (Michael Winkelman). The double-naming of the brothers is explained in the first full episode, when the elder Luke introduces Little Luke to Pepino Garcia (Tony Martinez) and says, "Well, you see, in the excitement of having him, Ma and Pa 'plum' forgot they already had me."[1] Only Crenna appeared in all 225 episodes.

text: The McCoys' farm had previously been owned by an uncle, Ben McCoy, who died. The former West Virginians join the Grange farm association and hire Pepino as a farm hand after he informs them that he had worked for Ben, serving as his "foreman" on the property. In the episode that aired on January 8, 1962, Pepino becomes an American citizen and takes the surname "McCoy". The McMichaels, a brother and sister combination played by Andy Clyde and Madge Blake in twenty-nine and twenty-one episodes, respectively, lived on the hill not far from the McCoys. Amos McCoy and George McMichael, both mischievous, crotchety old men, would sometimes quarrel, particularly over their games of checkers and horseshoes. Kate is friendly with the much older Flora McMichael, George's sister, and becomes involved with life in the community.

text: Though still in her twenties, Kate serves as a mother figure for Luke's younger siblings, Hassie and Little Luke, and one episode shows her bewilderment in trying to entice the children to take responsibility for their school studies. Many episodes have a moral theme consistent with the conservative views of Walter Brennan, such as two 1957 segments entitled "You Can't Cheat an Honest Man" with Joseph Kearns, later of Dennis the Menace, and "Gambling Is a Sin", in which Amos allows a casino to advertise on McCoy property before the ethics of the matter is brought to his attention.[2] Other such episodes are "Go Fight City Hall", "The Taxman Cometh", "You Can't Always Be a Hero", "You Never Get Too Old", "Where There's a Will", "Beware a Smart Woman", "Money in the Bank", "How to Win Friends", "You're As Young As You Feel", "Honesty Is the Best Policy", and "Never a Lender Be".[3]

text: Perhaps one of the more memorable episodes, "The New Well" (October 30, 1958), pits science against folklore, when Grandpa's divining rod proves superior to the paid recommendation of a geologist, played by Joe Flynn, in locating a new water source on the farm.[4] In the 1958 episode "It Pays to Be Poor", John Dehner plays Roger Brewster, a hard-edged New York City businessman determined to buy the McCoy farm to turn it into a motel; but spurred by his kindly wife (Dorothy Green), he soon develops an unexpected appreciation for the basic values and personal benefits of rural living.[5]

text: In "Little Luke's Education" (February 6, 1958), Amos confronts bigotry among the local children against hillbilly peoples such as the McCoys. In "Grampa's Private War" (February 12, 1959), Amos gets so carried away with patriotic fervor that he claims to have fought under Theodore Roosevelt in the Spanish–American War, but Walter Brennan was four years old when that war was fought in 1898. Then Amos is invited to speak at a Veterans Day ceremony.[3]

text: Jon Lormer was cast seven times on The Real McCoys in 1959 and 1960, six as the character Sam Watkins. Joan Blondell appeared three times near the end of the series as Aunt Win. Marjorie Bennett was cast three times as Amanda Comstock. Pat Buttram and Howard McNear also appeared three times; they were subsequently cast as Eustace Haney on CBS's Green Acres and as Floyd the Barber on CBS's The Andy Griffith Show. Olin Howland and Willard Waterman appeared five times each as Charley Perkins and Mac Maginnis, respectively.[3]

text: Early in the series, Charles Lane, who often appeared in a character role on I Love Lucy, was cast twice as Harry Poulson, a fast-talking egg salesman; Hassie McCoy has an interest in Harry's son. In 1963, Jack Oakie appeared three times in the role of Uncle Rightly. Dick Elliott was cast twice as Doc Thornton, and Lurene Tuttle appeared twice as Gladys Purvis, the widowed mother of series character Kate McCoy, with Jay Novello in one of those appearances as Gladys' intended second husband, a retired photographer from Fresno.[3]

text: Malcolm Cassell appeared several times as Hassie McCoy's boyfriend, Tommy. Edward Everett Horton played J. Luther Medwick, the grandfather of Hassie's other boyfriend, Jerry; Medwick and Amos soon clash. Verna Felton, a member of the December Bride cast, appeared once as Cousin Naomi Vesper. Jesse White, known as the Maytag repairman in the television commercial and subsequently a cast member of CBS's The Ann Sothern Show, portrayed a used car salesman named "San Fernando Harry" who clashes with Amos McCoy in "The New Car" (October 2, 1958). On June 1, 1961, Amos, Luke, and Kate return to West Virginia for the 100th birthday gathering of "Grandmother McCoy", played by Jane Darwell. In one episode, Lee Van Cleef played a sentry; in another Tom Skerritt appeared as a letter carrier.[3]

text: The episode "The Tycoon" (August 30, 1960) four years later coincidentally became the title of Brennan's next ABC sitcom, The Tycoon, with his co-star Van Williams.[3] Barbara Stanwyck made a cameo appearance in the 1959 episode, "The McCoys Go to Hollywood", which also features Dorothy Provine, and a glimpse of the Desilu Studios, where the series was filmed. In 1961, Fay Wray is featured in the episode "Theatre in the Barn", as herself. She  volunteers to direct a local amateur production to raise money for the Grange.[citation needed]

text: Just before The Real McCoys ended its run on ABC, Nolan left the series in a contract dispute and was written out of the remaining scripts: her character of Kate died, but details were never given. Hassie left home to attend college, and Little Luke joined the United States Army. She appeared only in the first episode of the final season—he never did. Amos McCoy did not appear in many episodes. Luke was a widower, and many of the stories revolved around Grandpa trying to find him a new wife. This nearly succeeded when Luke met Louise Howard, portrayed by Janet De Gore, a widow with a young son, Greg, played by Butch Patrick, later of CBS's The Munsters.

text: Nielsen ratings[edit]

text:
Season
Time slot (ET)
Rank
Rating

1957–1958
Thursday at 8:30–9:00 p.m.
#30
26.6 (Tied with The Loretta Young Show and Zorro)

1958–1959
#8
30.1

1959–1960
#11
28.2

1960–1961
#5
27.7

1961–1962
#14
24.2

1962–1963
Sunday at 9:00–9:30 p.m.
N/A

text: Syndication[edit]

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text: For several seasons beginning in 1962, starting with the ABC episodes, the series aired weekday mornings in reruns on CBS under the title The McCoys. It was then syndicated. Its current distributor SFM Entertainment showed the series on weekday afternoons on the former The Nashville Network in the late 1990s into 2000. The show is currently shown at 6:00 and 6:30 pm Eastern time, Mondays through Fridays, on COZI TV. With the morning reruns, the opening theme was played in instrumental form (these reruns were aired opposite, NBC's Concentration game show).

text: The show is remembered as The Real McCoys, except for the season on CBS and in the morning reruns between 1962 and 1966. These latter episodes were used in the DVD releases and omitted the full-length pilot. The ending theme music on the DVDs is from the morning rerun version. The original end theme used the following lyrics: "Livin' as good folks should live, as happy as kids with toys/Week after week you're gonna be showed another human episode of Grandpappy Amos and the girls and the boys of the family known as The Real McCoys." An alternate closing theme used these lyrics: "Sharing each others sorrows, enjoying each others joys/week after week you're gonna be showed another human episode of Grandpappy Amos and the girls and the boys of the family known as the Real McCoys!"

text: DVD releases[edit]

text: Infinity Entertainment released the first four seasons of The Real McCoys on DVD in Region 1 for the first time between 2007 and 2010.  As of 2012, these releases have been discontinued and are out of print.

text: On May 7, 2012, it was announced that Inception Media Group (IMG) had acquired the rights to the show. IMG subsequently re-released the first two seasons on DVD.[6][7]

text: On June 4, 2012, IMG announced that it would be releasing a complete series set, featuring all 224 remastered episodes.[8] Release of this set never came to fruition, and the rights to the show's home videos later moved to SFM Entertainment, which released The Real McCoys: The Complete Series on August 29, 2017 in Region 1. [9]  This is a manufacture-on-demand (MOD) release, available exclusively from Amazon.com.

text:
DVD name
No. ofepisodes
Release date

Complete Season 1
39
July 24, 2007July 24, 2012(re-release)

Complete Season 2
39
October 30, 2007November 13, 2012(re-release)

Complete Season 3
39
June 17, 2008August 26, 2014(re-release)[10]

Complete Season 4
39
June 29, 2010August 26, 2014 (re-release)[11]

Complete Season 5
29
August 26, 2014[12]

Complete Season 6
39
August 26, 2014[13]

The Complete Series
224
August 29, 2017[14]


document_title: Hawaii Five-O

question_text: what is the hawaii five o theme song called

text: Hawaii Five-O

text: Hawaii Five-O or Hawaii Five-0 may refer to:

text:
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series)

Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 1)
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 2)
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 3)
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 4)
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 5)
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 6)
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 7)
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 8)
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 9)
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 10)
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 11)
Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series, season 12)
List of Hawaii Five-O (1968 TV series) episodes

Hawaii Five-O (album), 1969, by The Ventures

"Hawaii Five-O", the title track and theme song of the 1968 TV series

Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series), reboot of the 1968 TV series

Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 1)
Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 2)
Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 3)
Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 4)
Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 5)
Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 6)
Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 7)
Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series, season 8)
List of Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series) characters
List of Hawaii Five-0 (2010 TV series) episodes